Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Monday, January 6, 2025

Last night I went to bed at 10pm, got up once during the night, again at 5:15, couldn’t fall back asleep so I got up at 6:30.

Today is a holiday, Epiphany.

Delta does not have nonstop flights between Chicago and Medellin so I guess no one does.

Finally, after so many days of rain and/or overcast skies, today is a sunny day.

Teresa wants us to go to El Correo for lunch today. Fine with me.

The gym was more crowded than usual but I completed my normal workout without any problem.

I had a latte in Ganso y Castor for about 90 minutes while restarting my online correspondence chess games.

Per USAA, they appear to have car rental discounts up to 35% with Hertz, Avis, Enterprise and Budget. When I was looking outside of USAA for car rentals it looked like they require a credit card (not a debit card) as a rental condition. My current credit limit is only $500 so I’ll need to raise that, but first I’ll need to know what to raise it to.

And before that I’ll need to book our flights so I guess that’s my first priority. It looks like my main options are American, United, and COPA. For the date in question, Thursday, June 26th: American leaves Medellin at 2:15am and COPA arrives in Chicago at 12:34am so those aren’t attractive. United leaves Medellin at 12:15am and arrives in Chicago at 9:25am so that might be our best option. Interestingly, the United flight has a 1 hour and 40-minute layover in Houston (IAH). (COPA would have the advantage of an early layover in Panama and the bulk of the trip would remain and we might be able to sleep.) So, back to United, we would arrive at 9:25am, collect our bags, rent a car, go for lunch then check into our Airbnb just after noon. (I assume we would have gone through Immigration in Houston, no?) Next, I’ll check the other days of the week and see if they have a different schedule.

We left the apt at 1:15 and took a Didi to El Correo in Provenza. Terresa had their chicken and I their pepper steak. We both had baked potatoes but they weren’t hot and some of my steak was too chewy and other pieces were rare so I got the later to go. We shared a bottle of water and the check came to 169,569 ($39) but my debit card was declined twice so I paid in cash.

We walked down about 4 blocks to Carrera 37 where we found Epoca Café Bar.



We had lattes and shared a strange looking tiramisu. We left at 4:30 and returned to the apt by Didi.

I watched the TV series Band of Brothers.

 

JUST FUNNY



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